![]() Go to File > Options > Mail and under the Tracking section choose “Never send a read receipt” and then go about your sneaky, black-hearted ways. This assumes that your IT department even allows you to disable Outlook read receipts. You can opt into using this feature, but hitting Notify when read allows you to get notifications for individual emails sent through. If you don’t care if I judge you poorly for disabling read receipts and still want to do it, here’s how: ![]() If you don’t already use the preview pane to read your emails, check out this article on How To Change The Default Reading Pane Location In Outlook 2010 And Make Emails Easier To Read. If you double-click an email to open it and read it, the jig is up, and it’ll be marked as read. Note that this only applies to preview messages in the preview pane. Previewing without marking as read helps me work this system, but it also helps keep the anxious read-receipt-stalker in the loop by letting them know I’ve begun working on a reply in earnest. I like to keep my inbox clean, but I also like to keep my emails unread until I start working on answering them. ![]() I keep items unread after previewing, and I use CTRL + Q to mark as read. I’ve had my Outlook set up like this for about six months now, and I enjoy it immensely. One is for Download complete items including attachments for subscribed folders and the other is for Use the custom behavior defined below. In Outlook 2010, go to Files > Options > Mail and look under “Outlook panes” to find the Reading Pane button. After playing around with all the settings in Outlook, there is a setting/checkbox in Define Send/Receive Groups -> Edit -> Receive mail items. In Outlook 2007, go to Tools > Options > Other and click Reading Pane to access these same options. Just type in a value for “Wait n seconds before marking item as read.” This is great if you want to feel like you’ve just buzzed in on Jeopardy every time a message is read (“You have 15 seconds, sir…”). Or, if you want, you can go back to File > Options > Advanced and select the Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane check box and change how long Outlook gives you before marking it as read. To mark it as unread again, press CTRL + U (this won’t unsend the read receipt, though). When you’re ready to mark it as read, you can double-click it to open it or right-click and choose “Mark as read,” or press CTRL + Q (my fave). When you go back to Outlook, you can read the message in the Reading Pane with impunity.
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